The Family Office Council takes privacy seriously, with our advisory board screening all potential members. Multi family offices and other service providers will be refused admission to our events, even if accompanied by a member

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TRUSTED

We are the trusted partners of some of the world’s most influential families. They rely on the Family Office Council for introductions, data, insight and dealflow

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SPECIALISTS

The management team has over 25 years combined experience dealing with family offices of all shapes and guises. It’s all we do, and we do it well.

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PRIVATE

The Family Office Council takes privacy seriously, with our advisory board screening all potential members. Multi family offices and other service providers will be refused admission to our events, even if accompanied by a member

Learn about membership

Partner with us

TRUSTED

We are the trusted partners of some of the world’s most influential families. They rely on the Family Office Council for introductions, data, insight and dealflow

Learn about membership

Partner with us

SPECIALISTS

The management team has over 25 years combined experience dealing with family offices of all shapes and guises. It’s all we do, and we do it well.

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ORIGIN

In 2013 our founder, Keith Johnston, discovered that single family offices were looking for better ways to network, and to pool their experiences and data. Their main frustrations:

Providers did not cater to them: few products were designed solely for family officesConferences were broken: lax controls on attendees meant they were swamped with salespeople and charlatansResearch was unreliable: they didn’t trust providers with their real numbers and assumed others acted similarly

The Family Office Council, is our response to these needs. Individually, and as a group, we have built an enviable reputation as trusted intermediaries between individual family offices themselves, and between them and their partners.

Advisory Board

Our advisory board members each bring years of leadership experience and strong, global networks.
In addition to advising on event content and research topics, the advisory board set the criteria for membership.

ADVISORY BOARD CHAIRMAN

Simon Foster

CEO, TY Danjuma Family Office

Simon qualified as an accountant with Ernst & Young and has 19 years of post-qualification experience in international investment environments.

He joined the TY Danjuma Family Office as CFO in 2011, before progressing to his current role as CEO. Simon is an experienced Family Office leader and has in excess of 16 years’ experience acting in Director, Company Secretary and CFO capacities for diverse international family offices, investment vehicles and their portfolio companies from bases in the UK and Bermuda. He has twice been the architect for the initial creation of family office/ private investment structures. He has extensive knowledge of budgeting, strategic planning and performance reporting

Advisory board members

Binoy R. V. Meghraj

Meghraj Group

Binoy is the Head of Investments for his family’s family office, and a Trustee of his family’s two charitable foundations. He works closely with families and businesses from Japan, India, East Africa, the UK and the UAE

Andrew Morris-Wyatt

Marle Hill LLP

Andrew is the CEO of Marle Hill LLP, a single family office managing and administering financial and non-financial affairs and connected matters for an ultra-high net worth family. He is a former Managing Director of HSBC Private Bank, where he was head of the UK High Net Worth relationship team.

Mohammed Nadar

HALJ

Mohamed Nadar is currently CEO of HALJ, with oversight of a multifunctional office based in Jedddah, Saudi Arabia, responsible for general investment activities, with a focus on real estate development, asset and property management. In addition the office is responsible for day-today family logistical needs.

MANAGEMENT TEAM

Keith Johnston

CEO and Founder

Keith has over 15 years’ experience as a lobbyist and communications specialist,
with expert knowledge of the private client and family office sectors.

Prior to the FOC, Keith was Director of Policy & Communications at the Society
of Trust and Estate Planners (STEP).

While there he more than doubled membership, lobbied extensively, and launched the STEP Private Client Awards.

Keith holds an MA (Hons) in History from the University of Glasgow

Alex Gherciu

Head of Consulting

Alex is an operations and corporate development specialist with extensive experience delivering business development, change, and systems implementation projects, frequently across borders.

Prior to the FOC, Alex was CFO at a regional IPPF centre.

He was responsible for raising finance, and implementing multiple projects.

Alex holds a Diploma in Economics and
Accounting from AES, Chisinau, Moldova.

ABOUT US

The Family Office Council is a membership group for Single Family Offices with leadership and agenda set by Single Family Offices. Members of the Council are Principals and Single Family Office Executives.

WHAT WE DO

Create a community for Family Office Executives to meet their needs

Improve the services provided to Family Offices

Provide a forum for the communication of best practice between Family Offices

Improve public understanding of Family Offices and create a better environment